Mind is a MetaphorMetaphors Database by Brad Pasanekhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors
"For Jesus sake, remove not my Distress, / Till free Triumphant Grace shall Reposess / The Vacant Throne; from whence my Sins Depart, / And make a willing Captive of my Heart."Work: The History and Remarkable Life Of the truly Honourable Colonel Jackhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/11302
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/11302"[A]s to the Arguments which my Reason dictated for perswading me to lay down, Avarice stept in and said, go on, you have had very good luck, go on, till you have gotten Four or Five Hundred Pound, and then you shall leave off, and then you may live easie without working at all."Work: The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flandershttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/11288
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/11288"So possible is it for us to roll ourselves up in Wickedness, till we grow invulnerable by Conscience; and that Centinel once doz'd, sleeps fast, not to be awaken'd while the Tide of Pleasure continues to flow, or till something dark and dreadful brings us to ourselves again."Work: The Fortunate Mistress [Roxana]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/19004
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/19004"[S]o with my Eyes open, and with my Conscience, as I may say, awake, I sinn'd, knowing it to be a Sin, but having no Power to resist; when this had thus made a Hole in my Heart, and I was come to such a height, as to transgress against the Light of my own Conscience, I was then fit for any Wicke...Work: The Fortunate Mistress [Roxana]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/19002
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/19002"All these Thoughts, and many more, crowded in so fast, I say, upon me, that I wanted to give Vent to them, and get rid of him, and was very glad when he was gone away"Work: The Fortunate Mistress [Roxana]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/11463
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/11463One may have "several times loud Calls from [his] Reason and [his] more composed Judgment to go home"Work: The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Marinerhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/11176
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/11176"It is as impossible as needless, to set down the innumerable Crowd of Thoughts that whirl'd through that great Thorowfair of the Brain, the Memory, in this Night's Time."Work: The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Marinerhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/11155
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/11155"I call'd a Council, that is to say, in my Thoughts, whether I should take back the Raft, but this appear'd impracticable."Work: The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Marinerhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/11148
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/11148